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Sunday, March 30, 2014

PYPTUG Meeting - March 31st

PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group meeting

Come join PYPTUG at out next meeting (March 31st 2014) to
learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools.
Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed
before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert
would do without.

What

Meeting will start at 5:30pm.

We will open on an Intro to PYPTUG and on how to get started with Python, PYPTUG activities and members projects, then on to News
from the community. After that, on to our main talk.

DOOR PRIZE

We will be giving away one copy of "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz. About 1600 pages, makes a dictionary looks small... Attendees will receive a ticket for the drawing.

MAIN TALK

by Neal Caren

Title: “How the Times writes about men and women”, and other things social scientists do with Python

Bio: I a sociologist at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. I primarily study the relationship between social movements
and the media. I use Python primarily for gathering textual data from
the Internet and for the quantitative analysis of text.

Abstract: This talk will primarily focus on analyzing text in
Python. I will review of a few of the major ways that social scientists
use Python to analyze textual data, including sentiment analysis and
text classification. I’ll primarily draw on my own work looking at
newspaper data and scientific articles.

Lightning talks!

After the talks, we will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of
5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks
were provided here, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.

And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:

"Visitors
can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid
reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area
on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation
to register for a parking permit."